Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

The Search for Value is the prevailing journey to a Holy Grail in healthcare these days. But whose value is it, anyway? Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. on value, where only satisfaction ranks below the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. The top ten were: AstraZeneca.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. This article was updated with additional comments.

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Clocktree

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The study, conducted by DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement, also found that: 75% of providers who use telehealth services expect their telehealth volume to increase or stay the same during the next 12 months Public health providers are more likely (44%) to use telehealth than all other practice types (21%).

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Continue Education Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

“Today, we were heartened to read the significant results from this important study, demonstrating the positive impact telehealth can have on treating individuals with substance abuse disorder,” said Kyle Zebley, senior vice president, public policy, the ATA, and executive director, ATA Action. “It About ATA Action.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Everyday Health polled 6,700 U.S. adults between 18 and 64 years of age about their perspectives on stress, anxiety, panic, and mental and behavioral health. One in three working-age people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? Fifty percent of households without health insurance reported trouble affording medical care compared with 13% of people with health insurance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

Thus, the AHA issued a caveat on the projection of $323 bn losses for 2020 with the proviso that, without reducing the spread of the virus and patients entering inpatient care, health system financial losses will be greater than this forecast. Uncompensated care costs (owing to the sharp upturn in unemployment in the U.S.,

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Preliminary results indicate that approximately 83% of participants in the intervention arm achieved a ≥ 4-point improvement in EPDS score, compared to only 22% in the control arm (p-value < 0.001). We help leading organizations ideate, create, and evaluate technology-based solutions to pressing healthcare challenges across the globe.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Compared with health citizens living in other wealthy countries, people living in the U.S. are still among the least likely to have a regular doctor or place to go for care. Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Cohen, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." This would have a chilling effect on access to care across the entire U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost. While VBHC sounds promising, the reality is that it is challenging to achieve as transforming a health system that is truly patient-centred and outcome based requires a lot of work.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Medicare added over 100 billing codes for the duration of the public health emergency. Telemedicine Reimbursement Specifics When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) develops the fee schedule, each code has three components: Work Relative Value Unit (RVU) Practice expense RVU, and Malpractice expense RVU.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. Too many patients have not returned to the health care system.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

OVERVIEW: This webinar examines specific ways that EHR interoperability and electronic health records systems integration can deliver a range of benefits to remote patient monitoring (RPM) for driving improved care coordination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. "The Commission has long supported the movement of Medicare payment policy from fee-for-service to value-based payment such as A-APMs," said Tabor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

"The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed for us to make rapid progress on expanding access to telehealth so children and families across the country, especially those in rural and underserved communities, face fewer barriers to accessing medical care," said Rep. Blunt Rochester in a statement. healthcare system. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

Dear Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Neal, Chairman Buchanan, and Ranking Member Doggett: I am writing in response to your May 10 hearing, titled “Examining Policies that Inhibit Innovation and Patient Access.” New digital health modalities, such as remote monitoring, lower costs through reducing emergency room visits for chronic conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Food — healthy, accessible, fairly-priced — is a key social determinant of individual health, wellness, and a public’s ability to pursue happiness. can learn from the food culture, policy and economy of Italy when it comes to health. Celsus composed De medicina largely based on the teachings of Hippocrates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Taskforce on Telehealth Policy released a final report on Tuesday outlining its findings and recommendations around safeguarding the future of telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. Regina Benjamin, founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic and former Surgeon General of the United States, to Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sarah Samis, VP, Public Health Products & Platforms at GCOM. This iterative process can help public agencies get the most value from SDOH data. The personas ranged from public health analysts to care coordinators.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Wright at CareMax about the importance of involving patients in their own care, especially in fee-for-value models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Do you think we're at an inflection point for virtual care and RPM?

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

health care security. TransUnion has been tracking consumer-level effects on a weekly basis, and today in Health Populi with 3 mm+ claims filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, I wanted to share TU’s latest analysis of U.S. consumers’ financial health in the COVID-19 pandemic. The value of standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. In Maryland, where CRISP is based, for instance, there are many one- to two-person physician practices, and the medical community does a lot of internal communication via provider societies and associations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“A little over two years ago, I developed the policies and practice around telehealth, but it was not well-promoted or used by many, in contrast to the explosion of use we have experienced since the COVID-19 pandemic.” With older adolescents and young adults, it can be done privately, something this age group values, Libby noted.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 28, 2023

From shared-decision making, patient-centered care and value-based care to common technology innovations, healthcare players often describe how we aspire healthcare to be in concepts, buzzwords, branding and what has become common lexicon mentioned in conversations across the healthcare industry. It gets more nuanced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits. Digital health startups banked a record-breaking $29.1B

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